Warner Brothers' biggest franchises (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, DC) are fizzling out. Even with Joker's success in the box office, it still can't compete with LOTR and Harry Potter. But, they cannot keep adding on to these. Fantastic Beasts is a flaming ball of J. K. Rowling trying to diversify her story, David Yates, and dog crap. And they can't reboot them because it hasn't even been two decades yet (although next year LOTR will be at that mark, but that's just The Fellowship of the Ring if you count The Hobbit it's only been 7 years). So after eliminating all these franchises and ignoring random movies like Ready Player One, their obvious choice is Batman. They already know it, that's why Robert Pattinson is going to be starring in 2021. But what they're trying to do is not going to work. The Dark Knight Rises gave them literally $1,000,000,081 worldwide in 2012, so why aren't they investing in paying Christopher Nolan a ton of cash for him to come back? A huge paycheck can easily change his opinion on discontinuing the Batman movies. I'm sure it's been thought of before, but when you see Marvel paying Robert Downey Jr. 15 mil for jumping around in spandex on a green screen I don't see why they could fork over that to get a visionary director to save you. That's my opinion on the matter, and I've made fancast for the fourth film: https://www.mycast.io/stories/the-dark-knight-reborn
I think I have a solid cast list and even though Heath Ledger has died I think that with his family's consent they could create a CGI model like in Gemini Man and the upcoming Finding Jack (https://www.businessinsider.com/james-dean-posthumous-casting-in-new-movie-through-visual-effects-2019-11).

This ended up being a bit long. Sorry, but not really 👍.

Imagine responding to what I think is a well thought out opinion of Warner Brothers' best move with, "ur gay GO GO POWER RANGERS". It's almost frightening how completely stupid you are.

I have to say that above all, I'm just thrilled that someone has responded to my post (The previous messages were from one of my friends messing with me). As I was making the post I had just finished re-watching the Dark Knight Trilogy which may have contributed to my rambling about the future of DC's cinematic universe, and I was not thinking about the successes of Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Maybe it's just the overwhelming public opinion in the fan base regarding most DCEU movies that influenced my own opinion. I admit that I did like Wonder Woman (disregarding David Thewlis' mustache as Ares) and Aquaman was also great but I've always preferred the realism of Christopher Nolan. I think that the trilogy set itself apart from Marvel and other superhero companies by having a darker approach to superheroes in general. Of course there are always outlying comic runs that portray the characters in a more lighter view but for the most part DC is the grim comic company that I want. Getting back to movies, DC is being great right now by balancing out the moods of their movies. On one side of the spectrum, there is Joker in its rated R glory. Then on the other there is Shazam, the comedic innocent film. So yes, Warner Bros is running out of options with other franchises but, altering my original opinion on the matter, the DCEU is the way to go. I'm excited for Matt Reeves and what he can do for Batman, and the future of the DCEU all-together. You've shown me the light, and I'd say that I've moved to a healthy halfway point on the spectrum you were talking about.